From ceaker at utk.edu Mon Dec 1 09:44:13 2014 From: ceaker at utk.edu (Eaker, Chris) Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2014 14:44:13 +0000 Subject: [Rdap] Research Data Selection and Appraisal Policies Message-ID: <651C332C8B842A4FAB240BB5054235CD8155912D@kmbx2.utk.tennessee.edu> Hello All, I am researching selection and appraisal policies for digital research data sets. Does your institution (or data center, if that's where you work) have written selection and/or appraisal policies for digital research data sets? If so, would you mind sharing that document with me? The results of this research will be a book chapter about "Appraisal and Selection of Digital Research Data" in an upcoming ACRL book entitled Databrarianship: The Academic Data Librarian in Theory and Practice. Thank you, in advance, for any resources you can provide. Sincerely, Christopher B. Eaker Assistant Professor and Data Curation Librarian College of Architecture and Design Liaison University of Tennessee Libraries John C. 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True North Science Boot Camp 2015 coming to UBC Okanagan, Kelowna, BC, May 25-27 -- Focus on Research Data Management Message-ID: ** Apologies for cross-posting** *The 2nd Annual True North Science Boot Camp for Librarians is moving to Kelowna, BC, Canada! ? the heart of wine-country in Western Canada ? and while we are still busy sorting all the details and adding them to the website, we want to make sure you block these dates off in your calendar so ?* *Save the dates! 2015 May 25-27* *Save the website! *truenorth2015.ok.ubc.ca ? and plan to attend the 2nd Annual *True North Science Boot Camp* (TNSBC) for librarians to take place at the *University of British Columbia (Okanagan), Kelowna, BC, Monday, May 25 to Wednesday, May 27. S*tarted in Massachusetts and spreading throughout the USA and now in Canada, science boot camps for librarians are immersive 2.5 day events featuring educational presentations delivered by scientists. *This year?s TNSBC will focus on Research Data Management in the Sciences: *how science researchers use data, create data, their needs for managing data, and how librarians can facilitate the creation and execution of data management plans. Designed to correspond to anticipated changes with Canada?s Tri-Council funding agencies as these changes relate to data management, this year?s TNSBC will not only enlighten us from the researchers? perspectives but will allow some professional discussion about the issue of research data management in the sciences. *Who?s this for?* Librarians involved in supporting research in the sciences or technology although anybody with an interest in science research is welcome. *What?s the cost?* *CDN$325* includes the camp plus 2 nights (dorm) accommodations with breakfast, lunch, breaks, and our official Boot Camp Dinner; *CDN$225 for commuters* includes the camp plus lunch, breaks, and our official Boot Camp dinner. *Optional (additional) Cost Items: * additional accommodation requirements, parking, Boat Cruise, Wine Tour. *When will registration open? *Monday, February 10, 2014. *Please note that space is limited.* *Sponsors:* Council of Prairie & Pacific University Libraries and the University of British Columbia, Okanagan with more to come. *Check the True North2015 website for details* as they take shape! 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"We must all accept that science is data and that data are science, and thus provide for, and justify the need for the support of, much-improved data curation." (Science editorial: Hanson, Sugden & Alberts, 2/11/2011). ????????????????????????????????? From: , Chris > Reply-To: "Research Data, Access and Preservation" > Date: Monday, December 1, 2014 at 9:44 AM To: "rdap at mail.asis.org" > Subject: [Rdap] Research Data Selection and Appraisal Policies Hello All, I am researching selection and appraisal policies for digital research data sets. Does your institution (or data center, if that's where you work) have written selection and/or appraisal policies for digital research data sets? If so, would you mind sharing that document with me? The results of this research will be a book chapter about "Appraisal and Selection of Digital Research Data" in an upcoming ACRL book entitled Databrarianship: The Academic Data Librarian in Theory and Practice. Thank you, in advance, for any resources you can provide. Sincerely, Christopher B. Eaker Assistant Professor and Data Curation Librarian College of Architecture and Design Liaison University of Tennessee Libraries John C. Hodges Library, Room 236 chris at utk.edu (865) 974-4404 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ljohnsto at umn.edu Mon Dec 1 14:44:57 2014 From: ljohnsto at umn.edu (Lisa Johnston) Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2014 13:44:57 -0600 Subject: [Rdap] Research Data Selection and Appraisal Policies In-Reply-To: <651C332C8B842A4FAB240BB5054235CD8155912D@kmbx2.utk.tennessee.edu> References: <651C332C8B842A4FAB240BB5054235CD8155912D@kmbx2.utk.tennessee.edu> Message-ID: Hi Chris, We have selection criteria for our Data Repository for the University of Minnesota (DRUM), you can view them at https://conservancy.umn.edu/pages/drum In addition, the data submissions go through a curation process that includes appraisal, I can send you our procedure, most of which is published in "A Workflow Model for Curating Research Data in the University of Minnesota Libraries: Report from the 2013 Data Curation Pilot." http://hdl.handle.net/11299/162338. Lisa On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 8:44 AM, Eaker, Chris wrote: > Hello All, > > I am researching selection and appraisal policies for digital research > data sets. Does your institution (or data center, if that's where you work) > have written selection and/or appraisal policies for digital research data > sets? If so, would you mind sharing that document with me? The results of > this research will be a book chapter about "Appraisal and Selection of > Digital Research Data" in an upcoming ACRL book entitled *Databrarianship: > The Academic Data Librarian in Theory and Practice*. Thank you, in > advance, for any resources you can provide. > > Sincerely, > *Christopher B. Eaker* > Assistant Professor and Data Curation Librarian > College of Architecture and Design Liaison > University of Tennessee Libraries > John C. Hodges Library, Room 236 > chris at utk.edu > (865) 974-4404 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Rdap mailing list > Rdap at mail.asis.org > http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/rdap > > -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lisa Johnston Research Data Management/Curation Lead and Co-Director of the University Digital Conservancy University of Minnesota Libraries 108 Walter Library, Minneapolis, MN 55455 p: 612.624.4216 F: 612.625.5583 http://lib.umn.edu/datamanagement | http://conservancy.umn.edu ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6908-9240 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We have several other repositories such as Luna and UC Digital Collections and you can find links to the sites on the UC Libraries home page under digital scholarship (http://www.libraries.uc.edu/digital-scholarship.html). We are in the process of implementing a next generation repository called Scholar (https://scholar.uc.edu/) and are involved in Project Hydra http://projecthydra.org/. Though this repository is not yet available to the whole UC community, we are working with early adopters to tailor functionality to our researchers. The collection policy for Scholar is found at this link https://scholar.uc.edu/coll_pol_request. Scholar is unique in our repositories as the submission is a self submission process. I am quoting our director of digital repositories in pointing out that "in our distribution license, we explicitly state that we do not want data that is "classified as restricted, per the University of Cincinnati Data Protection Policy, Policy 9.1.1." I think it would be fair to add that we will likely need to clarify other policies about data, maybe not exactly in the category of selection and appraisal, but for example to advise researchers on the best technical strategy for 'big data'. " This is an exciting project for UC libraries. Please let me know if you would like more information. Cheers, Amy Koshoffer Science Informationist Science and Engineering Libraries University of Cincinnati Libraries Office: 240C Braunstein Hall PO Box 210153 Cincinnati, OH 45221-0153 Tel: (513) 556-1310 Email: amy.koshoffer at uc.edu Web: libraries.uc.edu From: Rdap [mailto:rdap-bounces at asis.org] On Behalf Of Eaker, Chris Sent: Monday, December 01, 2014 9:44 AM To: rdap at mail.asis.org Subject: [Rdap] Research Data Selection and Appraisal Policies Hello All, I am researching selection and appraisal policies for digital research data sets. Does your institution (or data center, if that's where you work) have written selection and/or appraisal policies for digital research data sets? If so, would you mind sharing that document with me? The results of this research will be a book chapter about "Appraisal and Selection of Digital Research Data" in an upcoming ACRL book entitled Databrarianship: The Academic Data Librarian in Theory and Practice. Thank you, in advance, for any resources you can provide. Sincerely, Christopher B. Eaker Assistant Professor and Data Curation Librarian College of Architecture and Design Liaison University of Tennessee Libraries John C. Hodges Library, Room 236 chris at utk.edu (865) 974-4404 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From KOSHOFAE at ucmail.uc.edu Tue Dec 2 07:48:48 2014 From: KOSHOFAE at ucmail.uc.edu (Koshoffer, Amy (koshofae)) Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2014 12:48:48 +0000 Subject: [Rdap] Research Data Selection and Appraisal Policies In-Reply-To: <651C332C8B842A4FAB240BB5054235CD8155912D@kmbx2.utk.tennessee.edu> References: <651C332C8B842A4FAB240BB5054235CD8155912D@kmbx2.utk.tennessee.edu> Message-ID: Dear Chris, Here at the University of Cincinnati we have several institutional repositories to collect our researchers' intellectual output. First is the DRC or Digital Resource Commons (based on DSpace). This repository started as an Ohiolink project and the collection policy is found at this link: http://drc.ohiolink.edu/pages/FAQ.xml Ohiolink no longer supports the storage of our content and our content has been moved back to servers at UC. But we have a similar collection policy https://drc.libraries.uc.edu/submit.html. We have several other repositories such as Luna and UC Digital Collections and you can find links to the sites on the UC Libraries home page under digital scholarship (http://www.libraries.uc.edu/digital-scholarship.html). We are in the process of implementing a next generation repository called Scholar (https://scholar.uc.edu/) and are involved in Project Hydra http://projecthydra.org/. Though this repository is not yet available to the whole UC community, we are working with early adopters to tailor functionality to our researchers. The collection policy for Scholar is found at this link https://scholar.uc.edu/coll_pol_request. Scholar is unique in our repositories as the submission is a self submission process. I am quoting our director of digital repositories in pointing out that "in our distribution license, we explicitly state that we do not want data that is "classified as restricted, per the University of Cincinnati Data Protection Policy, Policy 9.1.1." I think it would be fair to add that we will likely need to clarify other policies about data, maybe not exactly in the category of selection and appraisal, but for example to advise researchers on the best technical strategy for 'big data'. " This is an exciting project for UC libraries. Please let me know if you would like more information. Cheers, Amy Koshoffer Science Informationist Science and Engineering Libraries University of Cincinnati Libraries Office: 240C Braunstein Hall PO Box 210153 Cincinnati, OH 45221-0153 Tel: (513) 556-1310 Email: amy.koshoffer at uc.edu Web: libraries.uc.edu From: Rdap [mailto:rdap-bounces at asis.org] On Behalf Of Eaker, Chris Sent: Monday, December 01, 2014 9:44 AM To: rdap at mail.asis.org Subject: [Rdap] Research Data Selection and Appraisal Policies Hello All, I am researching selection and appraisal policies for digital research data sets. 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The programme is open to librarians, repository managers, developers, and researchers in digital libraries and related fields. Applicants submitting a paper for the conference will be given priority consideration for funding (please provide details of your submission in the application form). Two questions in the application form ask 'What is it about Open Repositories that interests you' and 'What do you expect to gain from attending the conference?' You may wish to prepare answers to these before completing the form, as the responses to these will be critical to the success of your application. Please note: the Scholarship provides funding only for a full conference registration (including dinner and the poster reception). It does not cover other costs such as accommodation, travel, and subsistence. It is anticipated that the applicant's home institution will provide financial support to supplement the OR Scholarship Award. Application Form http://goo.gl/Vv03F4 (via GoogleDocs) The deadline for applications is 30 January 2015. LOOKING BACK, MOVING FORWARD: OPEN REPOSITORIES AT THE CROSSROADS OR2015 is the tenth OR conference, and this year's overarching theme reflects that milestone: Looking Back/Moving Forward: Open Repositories at the Crossroads. It is an opportunity to reflect on and to celebrate the transformative changes in repositories, scholarly communication, and research data over the last decade. More critically however, it will also help to ensure that open repositories continue to play a key role in supporting, shaping, and sharing those changes and an open agenda for research and scholarship. OR2015 will provide an opportunity to explore the demands and roles now expected of both repositories and the staff who develop, support, and manage them - and to prepare them for the challenges of the next decade. 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Fedora 4 features include vast improvements in scalability, linked data capabilities, research data support, modularity, ease of use and more. Fedora 4 features were collaboratively chosen and developed by a virtual team of developers and stakeholders from around the globe. With DuraSpace support this committed team has ensured that Fedora Repository software will meet the emerging needs of the academic research community now and for the next decade. ? DOWNLOAD Fedora 4: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Downloads ? RELEASE NOTES: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Fedora+4.0.0+Release+Notes ? DOCUMENTATION: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FEDORA40/Fedora+4.0+Documentation ? VIDEO: http://youtu.be/Mg_QFDAspoE *Community Kudos* Robin Ruggaber, Chair of the Fedora Steering Group and Library Chief Technology Officer at the University of Virginia commented on Fedora?s achievements: ?The success of the Fedora community today is rooted in the way it operates. The community members govern, fund, shape and produce the solution to meet global repositories? needs and performance requirements. The development is based on what product owners need and is managed so that everyone in the community can contribute without individually exhausting human or financial resources. We are maximizing the power of distributed development and ownership and are rewarded with a sustainable, low risk, moderate cost solution.? Stefano Cossu, Director of Application Services, Collections at The Art Institute of Chicago offered his reasons for adopting Fedora 4: ?We have searched far and wide for a system that could store our large and diverse collection of art objects and their related assets, integrate in a complex architecture of legacy applications and data sources, and make our digital resources available in a wide variety of ways. We have adopted Fedora 4 very early for its scalability and flexibility in all its aspects, its adhesion to solid standards, the project's long-sighted goals and the extremely talented and motivated community around it.? *Fedora 4 support for linked data?what it means for you* The broad concept of linked data is the idea that the semantic web can connect everything. Fedora 4 makes that concept real. With built-in linked data support Fedora 4 offers the ability to develop discovery tools in compliance with the W3C Linked Data Platform specification. The long-held linked data promise of broad and deeply faceted discovery on the open web is based on the concept that information can be exchanged using the resource description framework (RDF) as a standard model. The ability to share data openly and take advantage of the semantic web means that content is not ?inside a silo? that can only be discovered and re-used if repository software adheres to standardization and interoperability. With Fedora 4 the ?Web is a repository? providing new kinds of digital collections and data sources for services and applications. *Scalability?how big is big* As larger data sets, larger files, research data and multimedia use cases have emerged in the community Fedora 4 is set to meet the challenge of improved scalability. Fedora 4 repositories can manage millions and millions of digital files along with extremely large files of any type running on top of back-end storage systems. This means that petabytes of storage are available to you because Fedora can potentially operate on top of any storage system via a pluggable, expandable connector framework. *Flexibility and extensibility?plugging into what works* The strength of Fedora repository software lies in it?s native flexibility and extensibility. Fedora 4 architecture builds on a lightweight core model with multiple, pluggable components and a standard set of robust APIs. *Security* Fedora 4 provides a pluggable, extensible security framework capable of supporting a variety of authorization systems. Two initial systems have been implemented?role-based authorization and XACML. A third, based on the emerging W3C Web Access Control standard, is currently being planned. By decoupling security from the repository core, Fedora 4 supports existing authorization standards rather than maintaining a custom security framework. *Clustering* Clustering connects multiple Fedora 4 nodes in a network providing horizontal repository scaling for high-availability use cases. By configuring two or more replicated Fedora 4 nodes to run behind a load-balancer, you can evenly distribute web traffic between the nodes to maximize performance. *Fedora 3.8?a solid release to cap off the 3.0 line* Fedora 3.8 has always been planned as a part of Fedora 4 development. The aim was to cap off the 3.0 line with a solid release for the user community. The Fedora 3.8 release features an improved REST API interaction with correct headers returned for better caching along with performance improvements and bug fixes. ? DOWNLOAD Fedora 3.8: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FEDORA38/Downloads ? DOCUMENTATION: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FEDORA38/Fedora+3.8+Documentation *The Fedora 4 Community of Contributors* *Members* Arizona State University Libraries Brown University Library Case Western Reserve University Libraries Charles Darwin University Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries (CARL) Columbia University Library Cornell University Docuteam GmbH Durham University Duke University Libraries FIZ Karlsruhe George Washington University Ghent University Library Gothenburg University Library Indiana University ICPSR Johns Hopkins University Libraries La Trobe University London School of Economics & Political Science LYRASIS Macquarie University National Library of Medicine National Library of Wales / Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru National Research Council of Canada Northeastern University Libraries Northwestern University Libraries Ohio State Oregon State Pennsylvania State University Princeton University Rutgers University Libraries Smithsonian Institution, Office of Research Infomation Services Stanford University State and University Library of Denmark The Art Institute of Chicago Tufts University University of Alberta University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Santa Barbara University of Cincinnati University of Connecticut Libraries University of Hull University of Lausanne University of Manitoba University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries University of New South Wales University of Notre Dame University of North Carolina University of Oklahoma Libraries University of Oxford University of Pittsburgh University of Prince Edward Island University of Rochester Libraries University of Texas Libraries Austin University of Toronto University of Virginia University of Wisconsin University of York Uppsala University Library Yale University York University *Contributors* *Sprint Developers* Adam Soroka (University of Virginia) Andrew Woods (DuraSpace) Anusha Ranganathan (University of Oxford) Benjamin Armintor (Columbia University) Ben Pennell (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Chris Beer (Stanford University) Eddie Shin (Digital Curation Experts) Eric James (Yale University) Esme Cowles (University of California, San Diego) Giulia Hill (University of California, Berkeley) Greg Jansen (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Jared Whiklo (University of Manitoba) Jonathan Green (discoverygarden inc.) Jon Roby (University of Manitoba) Kevin S. Clarke (University of California, Los Angeles) Longshou Situ (University of California, San Diego) Michael Durbin (University of Virginia) Mike Daines (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Mohamed Mohideen Abdul Rasheed (University of Maryland) Nigel Banks (discoverygarden inc.) Osman Din (Yale University) Paul Pound (University of Prince Edward Island) Scott Prater (University of Wisconsin) Vincent Nguyen (Centers for Disease Control) Ye Cao (Max Planck Digital Library Yinlin Chen (Virginia Tech) Yuqing Jiang (discoverygarden inc.) *Community Developers* Aaron Coburn (Amherst College) Chris Colvar (Indiana University) Frank Asseg (FIZ Karlsruhe) Kai Sternad (Independant) Nikhil Trivedi (Art Institute of Chicago) Rob Sanderson (Stanford University) Robin Taylor (University of Edinburgh) *How Does DuraSpace Help?* DuraSpace (duraspace.org) works collaboratively with organizations that use Fedora to advance the design, development and sustainability of the project. 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Contact me or Carolyn Bishoff if you have questions. *Important Dates* *December 19, 2014*: Panel Presentations Submissions Due *January 16, 2015*: Interactive Posters, Lightning Talks, and Discussion Table Topics Submissions Due RDAP15, the sixth annual Research Data Access and Preservation Summit, is accepting proposals (max. 300 words) for panels, interactive posters, lightning talks, and discussion tables. Themes for RDAP15 were selected by this year?s planning committee with input from previous years? attendees and RDAP community members. *Panel Presentations* We are seeking panelists for the following topics (other panels are being curated by members of the program committee): - Data Literacy & Education: Creating the next generation of scientists This session will look at how libraries are building data literacy instruction services for undergraduate students, graduate programs and researchers across the disciplines. Questions to answer include: What role will librarians have in supporting data instruction services to researchers and students? What skills should libraries teach? Who should we partner with? What parts of the research process should librarians teach? How do we help non-scientists understand scientific data? - The Role of Assessment in Research Data Services This panel will discuss assessment activities institutions have conducted to provide research data services, such as identifying data management needs on campus, understanding the training needs of librarians who provide the services, and establishing metrics to measure the service outcome. Additionally, we are looking for panelists for general topics related to research data access & preservation, such as: - Data Management Services - Designing, Implementing, Proposing Pilot programs - Transitioning from Pilot programs to Full programs - Building Repositories: Money, Staff, Infrastructure - What Researchers Want/Need - Data Curation Outside Academia *Interactive Posters* We are soliciting on any of the following themes: - Institutional policies for research data - Building/expanding research data services - Collaboration or tension between units involved with research data - Institutional responses to government policies/guidelines concerning research data - Systems/strategies for full-lifecycle research data curation - Tools developed and/or used for data curation/management - Digital preservation - Data citation and reuse - Data repositories (institutional/disciplinary/other) - Education and training for research data management/curation *Themed Lightning Talks* We are seeking lightning talks on the theme: Building a community of Practice for Research Data Services: Experiences of academic institutions, government agencies and organizations. Research data management is a trending topic in higher education government agencies and organizations. The experiences of these institutions and groups range from creating, developing research data management services and the multi-faceted approaches to implementing the research data management services. Although some of these experiences include but are not limited to: obtaining university and campus support, building partnerships with faculty, data management consultations, assisting with data management plans and data literacy. We?re interested in learning more about the experiences, challenges and lessons learned of other institutions, organizations and agencies during the RDAP 15 summit. *Discussion Tables* In addition to the traditional conference presentations, we?re looking for interested and knowledgeable people to lead discussion tables during the Summit. Topics include, but are not limited to, the topics listed above for posters. If interested, submit a short description on the submission page. *Submissions* Submit your 300 word (maximum) summary or abstract, along with any supplementary documentation, for Panel Presentations by December 19, 2014. Submissions for Interactive Posters, (Seven Minute) Lightning Talks, and Discussion Table topics are due January 16, 2015. Submit your proposals for RDAP15 here: http://www.softconf.com/asis/RDAP15/ View previous RDAP presentations and posters on our Slideshare site. Links to previous Summits? programs, videos and articles in the ASIS&T Bulletin are available on our RDAP Past Events page. Keep up with RDAP news by joining our Listserv and following us on Twitter . For questions, contact co-chairs Carolyn Bishoff or Margaret Janz . We look forward to hearing from you! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Answers to these questions, from both the community and the Editorial Team, will be posted to the DataQ website and will include links to resources and tools, best practices, and practical approaches to working with researchers to address specific research data issues. We are currently seeking applications for our Editorial Team. If you are interested in becoming a DataQ Editor, please fill out the application form here by January 30, 2015: http://bit.ly/DataQApp. DataQ Editors will be responsible for helping to identify initial content, providing expert feedback on questions from DataQ users, and developing policies and procedures for answering questions. The Editorial Team will participate in regular virtual meetings and attend one in-person meeting in Kansas City, MO in late May. Each Editor will receive a $1000 stipend to help cover travel costs and time contributed to the project. The initial term for each Editor will last until October 31, 2015 when the grant period ends, but there may be opportunities to continue serving beyond the life of the grant based on the outcome of the project. Additional opportunities to contribute to DataQ will be announced soon. For all of the latest information about DataQ, please follow @ResearchDataQ on Twitter. Please send any questions about DataQ to the project Co-PIs Andrew Johnson at andrew.m.johnson at colorado.edu and Megan Bresnahan at megan.bresnahan at colorado.edu. ----------------------------------------------------- Andrew Johnson Assistant Professor; Research Data Librarian University of Colorado Boulder Libraries Phone: 303-492-6102 Website: https://data.colorado.edu/ ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7952-6536 Impactstory Profile: https://impactstory.org/AndrewJohnson -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From niso-announce at niso.org Mon Dec 15 14:54:06 2014 From: niso-announce at niso.org (NISO) Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 14:54:06 -0500 Subject: [Rdap] Call for participation New NISO Standards Development Projects in New Forms of Assessing Impact & Altmetrics Message-ID: <00eb01d018a0$e4372e80$aca58b80$@org> NISO Launches New Standards Development Projects in New Forms of Assessing Impact & Altmetrics Interested participants from libraries, scholarly publishers, research funders, scholars, university departments of academic affairs, providers of alternative metrics data, and system providers are encouraged to contact NISO The voting members of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) have approved four new projects to develop standards for alternative assessment metrics (altmetrics). The NISO Alternative Assessment Metrics Initiative was begun in July 2013 with funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation with a goal of building trust and adoption in new methods of assessing impact. Phase 1 of the project, which was completed this summer, gathered a large array of relevant stakeholder groups to identify what areas of alternative metrics would benefit most from standards-related developments. This input was distilled into a white paper published in June 2014, which was then presented to the NISO community to prioritize the action items as possible NISO work items. Phase 2 of the project will be to develop standards or recommended practices in the prioritized areas of definitions, calculation methodologies, improvement of data quality, and use of persistent identifiers in alternative metrics. As part of each project, relevant use cases and how they apply to different stakeholder groups will be developed. "Assessment of scholarship is a critical component of the research process, impacting everything from which projects get funded to who gains promotion and tenure, and which publications gain prominence in their fields of inquiry," explains Martin Fenner, Technical Lead, PLOS Article Level Metrics, and Chair of the NISO Alternative Metrics Initiative Steering Committee. "However, traditional metrics that have been primarily based on print processes are failing to keep pace with both the expanded range of research outputs produced by scholars, and the diverse usage of these research outputs in scholarly communication that is increasingly purely electronic. Altmetrics are increasingly being used and discussed as an expansion of the tools available for measuring the scholarly and social impact of research. For altmetrics to move out of its current pilot or proof-of-concept phase, we need to develop commonly used definitions and guidelines for appropriate collection and reporting of data, so that organizations who wish to utilize these metrics can adequately understand them and ensure their consistent application and meaning across the community." "The NISO Alternative Assessment Steering Committee will oversee several working groups that will be formed to develop the identified standards and recommended practices," states Nettie Lagace, NISO Associate Director for Programs. "For participation on these working groups, we are seeking interested participants from all the affected stakeholders including libraries, scholarly publishers, research funders (governmental and non-governmental), scholars, university departments of academic affairs, providers of alternative metrics data, and system providers who incorporate different elements of alternative metrics in their services." "We expect this initiative will continue to be broadly inclusive, with contributions from a diverse set of voices, who will be reliant on these new metrics and resulting tools," said Todd Carpenter, NISO Executive Director. "In addition to the working group members, we also will seek broader community feedback through stakeholder interest groups. In addition, draft documents will be made available for public comment and/or trial use before finalization and publication. NISO will also schedule public webinars for further discussion and training during the development process." The approved proposal for the Phase 2 projects as well as the Phase 1 White Paper are available on the NISO website at: www.niso.org/topics/tl/altmetrics_initiative/. Anyone interested in participating on one of the initiative's working groups should use the online contact form (www.niso.org/contact/) and indicate in which of the four activity area(s) you are interested. 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It is an opportunity to reflect on and to celebrate the transformative changes in repositories, scholarly communication, and research data over the last decade. More critically, however, it will also help to ensure that open repositories continue to play a key role in supporting, shaping, and sharing those changes and an open agenda for research and scholarship. The organizers invite you to review the full call for proposals here: http://www.or2015.net/call-for-proposals/, and to submit your proposal here: https://www.conftool.com/or2015/ by January 30, 2015. There are several different formats provided to encourage your participation in this year's conference, all described on the OR2015 website. *CODE OF CONDUCT* The Open Repositories Steering Committee is pleased to announce the release of the new Open Repositories Code of Conduct http://www.or2015.net/code-of-conduct/. The Open Repositories Code of Conduct underscores the OR Conference core value of openness by providing a welcoming and positive experience for everyone, whether they are in a formal session or a social setting, or are taking part in activities online. *KEY DATES* ? 30 January 2015: Deadline for submissions and Scholarship Programme applications ? 27 March 2015: Submitters notified of acceptance to general conference ? 10 April 2015: Submitters notified of acceptance to Interest Groups ? 8-11 June 2015: OR2015 conference The conference system is now open and is linked from the conference web site: http://www.or2015.net/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dminor at ucsd.edu Tue Dec 16 23:44:25 2014 From: dminor at ucsd.edu (Minor, David) Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 04:44:25 +0000 Subject: [Rdap] Registration for PASIG 2015 is now open Message-ID: The 15th PASIG meeting will be held March 11-13, 2015, on the campus of UC San Diego! Come to the premier practioner-driven digital preservation event. We'll be bringing together an international group of experts in a wide range of fields, dedicated to providing timely, useful information. Registration is now open! Early-bird registration fee of $150 is available until January 31. We've also reserved a block of reasonably-priced rooms at a hotel within walking distance of the event venue. All registration and hotel information, and well as the meeting agenda, can be found on the event website: https://libraries.ucsd.edu/chronopolis/pasig The agenda is still being finalized, but it will include: Wednesday, March 11: Optional Digital Preservation 101 An afternoon session drilling into the nuts and bolts of digital preservation, with an eye to infrastructure services. Thursday, March 12: Practitioners Knowledge Exchange Day A detailed look at where we are as a community, highlighting practical issues and solutions. We'll have presentations from archives and museums, public and university libraries from around the world. Friday, March 13: Service Providers and Vendors Day A range of case studies from preservation service providers and storage vendors, showing how their systems have been deployed in the real world. Note that PASIG is immediately following the 5th RDA Plenary. Come to beautiful San Diego in March and attend two amazing events! David. David Minor Program Director for Research Data Curation Chronopolis Program Manager UC San Diego Library From mark.conrad at nara.gov Wed Dec 17 09:14:36 2014 From: mark.conrad at nara.gov (Mark Conrad) Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 09:14:36 -0500 Subject: [Rdap] Registration for PASIG 2015 is now open In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Here's one you won't want to miss! On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 11:44 PM, Minor, David wrote: > > The 15th PASIG meeting will be held March 11-13, 2015, on the campus of UC > San Diego! > > Come to the premier practioner-driven digital preservation event. We'll be > bringing together an international group of experts in a wide range of > fields, dedicated to providing timely, useful information. > > Registration is now open! Early-bird registration fee of $150 is available > until January 31. We've also reserved a block of reasonably-priced rooms at > a hotel within walking distance of the event venue. > > All registration and hotel information, and well as the meeting agenda, > can be found on the event website: > > https://libraries.ucsd.edu/chronopolis/pasig > > The agenda is still being finalized, but it will include: > > Wednesday, March 11: Optional Digital Preservation 101 > An afternoon session drilling into the nuts and bolts of digital > preservation, with an eye to infrastructure services. > > Thursday, March 12: Practitioners Knowledge Exchange Day > A detailed look at where we are as a community, highlighting practical > issues and solutions. We'll have presentations from archives and museums, > public and university libraries from around the world. > > Friday, March 13: Service Providers and Vendors Day > A range of case studies from preservation service providers and storage > vendors, showing how their systems have been deployed in the real world. > > Note that PASIG is immediately following the 5th RDA Plenary. Come to > beautiful San Diego in March and attend two amazing events! > > David. > > David Minor > Program Director for Research Data Curation > Chronopolis Program Manager > UC San Diego Library > > > _______________________________________________ > Rdap mailing list > Rdap at mail.asis.org > http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/rdap > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jenn.riley at mcgill.ca Tue Dec 30 10:24:29 2014 From: jenn.riley at mcgill.ca (Jenn Riley) Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 15:24:29 +0000 Subject: [Rdap] =?windows-1252?q?Job_postings=3A_McGill_University_=28Mont?= =?windows-1252?q?r=E9al=29_-_Data_Curation=2C_Scholarly_Communications=2C?= =?windows-1252?q?_and_Copyright?= In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: A reminder that McGill University is accepting applications for three positions related to data curation, scholarly communications, and copyright through January 4. Postings can be found at http://www.mcgill.ca/library/about/jobs. Jenn Riley Associate Dean, Digital Initiatives, McGill University Library From: Jenn Riley > Date: Friday, 28 November, 2014 12:49 PM To: "CANLIB-DATA at LISTS.UBC.CA" >, "DLF-ANNOUNCE at LISTS.CLIR.ORG" >, "alctscentral at lists.ala.org" >, "scholcomm at ala.org" >, "digital-curation at googlegroups.com" >, "rdap at asis.org" > Cc: Isabelle Roberge > Subject: Job postings: McGill University (Montr?al) - Data Curation, Scholarly Communications, and Copyright The McGill University Library has several positions open for librarians working with data curation, scholarly communications, and copyright. It's an exciting time for us as we are growing our team and services in these areas. * Coordinator, Data Curation and Scholarly Communications ? lead our team to grow the Library?s campus-facing research data support services and advance emerging scholarly communication practices across academic disciplines * Scholarly Communications Librarian - provide research data management and curation services to the campus and engage with researchers on other scholarly communications issues * Head, Copyright Office - design and lead an outreach program to promote awareness and good copyright practice across the University Applications for these three positions are accepted through January 4, 2015. In addition, we are hiring a Data Reference Services Librarian as part of our user services team whose work may include data curation and scholarly communications issues as well. Apply by December 19. A list of all open positions in the McGill Library may be found at http://www.mcgill.ca/library/about/jobs. Jenn ----------------------------------- Jenn Riley Associate Dean, Digital Initiatives | Vice Doyenne, Initiatives num?riques McGill University Library | Biblioth?que Universit? McGill 3459 McTavish Street | 3459, rue McTavish Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 0C9 | Montr?al (QC) Canada H3A 0C9 (514) 398-3642 jenn.riley at mcgill.ca -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Felicia.Poe at ucop.edu Tue Dec 30 15:22:37 2014 From: Felicia.Poe at ucop.edu (Felicia Poe) Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 20:22:37 +0000 Subject: [Rdap] Job posting: Univ of California Curation Center - Data Management Product Manager Message-ID: <3EDA359809E58D47A6BEB81FDA94F2354061D73A@p-irc-exmbx02.AD.UCOP.EDU> *Apologies for cross posting* Position Available: Data Management Product Manager Looking for a challenging position supporting research data management? Join the University of California Curation Center?s (UC3) DMPTool (Data Management Planning Tool) team as a product manager. DMPTool is an innovative UC3 service that helps researchers create quality data management plans. UC3 is a program within the California Digital Library, based in Oakland, California. We are seeking an experienced professional who knows how to apply theory and put it into practice with in-depth project management skills and knowledge of the research process, data management, and data sharing to manage, promote, and enhance the DMPTool. This is a two-year contract position. How to Apply: If you are interested in this opportunity and would like to view the full job description and/or to apply, please visit https://jobs.ucop.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=57983 or contact Paulette Malak at Paulette.Malak at ucop.edu. Requirements include: ? Knowledge of and experience with data driven research and the emerging importance of data management and sharing. Familiarity with new data sharing policies required by funding agencies and journal publishers. ? Excellent project management skills and experience coordinating and promoting services. Proven ability to research, collect and analyze information to use in determining product options or alternatives. ? Demonstrated ability to engage with people in new settings as well as excellent interpersonal and communication skills. ? Ability to lead, build consensus and promote the exchange of information among project team, internal and external constituencies. ? Strong oral and written communication skills. ? Demonstrated understanding of the research data processes including data collection, description, sharing, preservation, and management. ? Entrepreneurial attitude to developing services; self-motivated, with the ability to set and attain goals effectively and the flexibility to adapt to change. HOW TO APPLY: If you are interested in this opportunity and would like to view the full job description and/or to apply, please visit https://jobs.ucop.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=57983 or contact Paulette Malak at Paulette.Malak at ucop.edu. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: